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Reputation: 27673

Where to store uploaded files?

I have an Asp.net web service and I need to store user-uploaded files. At first I thought of storing them in the App_Data folder, however, I now see that when publishing from Visual Studio with the 'Remove additional files at destination' option, it will remove files from the App_Data folder despite checking also the 'Exclude files from the App_Data folder'.

(There seem to be workarounds for this, but if it's not through the 'Publish' designer, I'm afraid that at some point the files will be removed, either due to human error, or some future MS update that will break it.)

So, I need some folder that is not under the publish path, and yet accessible (to the web app, not to the public), and that will not be auto-deleted.

EDIT

This is being done on a web hosted environment, so privileges are limited.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1767

Answers (1)

Ashkan Mobayen Khiabani
Ashkan Mobayen Khiabani

Reputation: 34152

You may choose any folder in any path (even in another drive) as long as your asp.net application has privilege to write to it. you may even create a virtual directory for this purpose.

Edit

As you are using a hosting environment, I don't know which options they have provided, as sometimes they restrict a lot, however in most cases when you are creating a new website in your hosting environment, you are asked to provide the path something like : \wwwroot you may want to change it to something like: \somepath\wwwroot (of course you should create somepath first), and you will have access to somepath too.

Upvotes: 3

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